Brooklyn College Receives $1 Million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Continue Transformative Program That Supports Transfer Students The Mellon Transfer Student Research Program successfully empowers transfer students through independent and group research, as well as peer mentoring while significantly improving grades, retention, and graduation rates. Read More
History Professor Karen Stern-Gabbay Earns Curatorial Fellowship History Professor Karen Stern-Gabbay has been awarded the Sid Lapidus Curatorial Fellowship at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, three-month fellowship for curators to support their original Read More
An Unorthodox Life An alumnus and ex-Haredim, with a new book on the topic, explores radical life transformations by researching others who walked a path similar to his own. Read More
Judaic Studies Professor Robert Shapiro Publishes Translation of Polish Holocaust Survivor’s Yiddish Memoir Judaic Studies Professor Robert Shapiro translated A Rejected Stone: My Life (MDX Publishing, 2020), a Yiddish-language memoir by a Holocaust survivor from eastern Poland who rebuilt his life in America, Read More
It Took a Village The Immigrant Student Success Office Celebrates Its One-Year Anniversary. Read More
Professor Sara Regeur Publishes Book on Winston Churchill Professor Sara Regeur of the History Department recently published her book, Winston S. Churchill and the Shaping of the Middle East, 1919-1922 (Academic Studies Press, 2020). Read More
History Prodessor Karen B. Stern Gabbay Wins Book Award from Association for Jewish Studies The Association for Jewish Studies has announced that Prof. Stern has won the 2020 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity Read More
Two Students Win Belle Zeller Scholarship Two students, junior Mic Braun and senior Marwa Elraey, have been awarded The Belle Zeller Scholarship, an award given by the Professional Staff Congress/CUNY, the university’s faculty and staff union. Read More
Faculty Discuss Election 2020 and Why Everyone Should Get Out to Vote Brooklyn College asked some faculty to weigh in on Election 2020, which is happening during an unprecedented time. Here is what they had to say. Read More
Emeritus Professor Jerry Krase, Judith N. DeSena ‘78 Publish Two Edited Volumes on Gentrification Emeritus Professor Jerry Krase and Judith N. DeSena ’78, who received her bachelor of arts in Sociology, recently published two edited volumes: Gentrification around the World, Volume I: Gentrifiers and Read More
